Guidelines for Posting

As you begin to research your topic, use your blog to record your observations. This will be a place where you and your classmates can explore ideas in writing, share interesting information, and organize your research sources. You should update your blog soon and often (an average of once a day, including weekends). Anne and I will check your blog periodically during the course of the project, looking for new information and progress. Be sure to reference outside sources as URL's and hyperlinks AT ALL TIMES.

Things you might include on your blog are:

- Comments about articles you find online that you find particularly interesting
- Images that you discover about your topic
- Questions that arise from your research
- Comments about other students' research (your group mates or others)
- Facts that particularly strike you (and why you find them striking)

Don't just regurgitate information; say what you think about the information, how you interpret it, etc. In other words, don't ever cite information without commenting on it. Also, (and this should be obvious) don't copy your group mates' blogs. This blog is for your INDIVIDUAL work, as our way of monitoring each student's individual progress.

Good luck,
Spencer